Team Vysion developed WeatherSonde to provide a reliable, real-time solution for monitoring atmospheric temperature inversions and supporting frost mitigation in orchard environments. Traditionally, farmers must walk through their fields in cold conditions to manually collect temperature readings—an effort that is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and often inaccurate for capturing vertical inversion layers.

WeatherSonde addresses this challenge by enabling remote, UAV-based atmospheric profiling, eliminating the need for manual field measurements. With a temperature accuracy of 0.22 °C, an average data processing time of 12.46 milliseconds, and more than six hours of continuous operation, the system delivers actionable inversion data with high precision.

Farmers face significant challenges in protecting crops from frost damage, particularly during early spring when plants are vulnerable after winter dormancy. Frost events can cause severe damage to foliage, blooms, fruit, and roots through dehydration and ice crystal formation in plant cells. While wind machines can potentially mitigate this by pulling warmer air down from higher altitudes, the effectiveness of this method is limited by the current inability to accurately measure the location of warmer air layers.